diff --git a/packages/react-native/ReactCommon/react/renderer/components/safeareaview/SafeAreaViewShadowNode.cpp b/packages/react-native/ReactCommon/react/renderer/components/safeareaview/SafeAreaViewShadowNode.cpp
index ead5d0865129..52a347fba9ef 100644
--- a/packages/react-native/ReactCommon/react/renderer/components/safeareaview/SafeAreaViewShadowNode.cpp
+++ b/packages/react-native/ReactCommon/react/renderer/components/safeareaview/SafeAreaViewShadowNode.cpp
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@
 
 namespace facebook::react {
 
-extern const char SafeAreaViewComponentName[] = "SafeAreaView";
+// NOLINTNEXTLINE(modernize-avoid-c-arrays)
+const char SafeAreaViewComponentName[] = "SafeAreaView";
 
 } // namespace facebook::react
diff --git a/packages/react-native/ReactCommon/react/renderer/components/safeareaview/SafeAreaViewShadowNode.h b/packages/react-native/ReactCommon/react/renderer/components/safeareaview/SafeAreaViewShadowNode.h
index 037db5cd492c..43c9f1320558 100644
--- a/packages/react-native/ReactCommon/react/renderer/components/safeareaview/SafeAreaViewShadowNode.h
+++ b/packages/react-native/ReactCommon/react/renderer/components/safeareaview/SafeAreaViewShadowNode.h
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@
 
 namespace facebook::react {
 
+// NOLINTNEXTLINE(modernize-avoid-c-arrays)
 extern const char SafeAreaViewComponentName[];
 
 /*